Virginia Tech Selects Ingeniux XPower For Web Content Management and Publishing; XML-based CMS...

Education & Technology Reporters

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has selected XPower Content Management System to power the university's Web sites including http://computing.vt.edu and eventually, http://www.vt.edu.

The content management and publishing system will help Virginia Tech to significantly improve publishing time and to cost-effectively repurpose content from many publications. XPower will also provide the university the ability to deploy a consistent look and feel site-wide.

"Our goal has been to find the best tool to help us address the problems of managing electronic content in a complex, distributed environment such as is found at a large, prominent university. We also need a system that enables our departmental content creators to publish directly to the Web, thereby eliminating our IT bottleneck. We chose Ingeniux because they can help us achieve these goals," explained Susan Olivier, manager of Web Application Research and Development.

With the deployment of the XPower Content Management System, technical and non-technical members of the Virginia Tech campus community will be able to cooperatively participate in the Web publishing process. To deliver current and accurate Web content from multiple campus-wide sources, Virginia Tech now has a content management system that is easy to use and provides the robust administration tools required to monitor access and to track the publishing process.

"We are seeing an immense need for Web content management systems at the college and university level," said Jim Edmunds, Ingeniux president and CEO. "The ease of use of our software for frontline staff, coupled with the extensibility of our XML architecture, makes Ingeniux an ideal fit for higher education."

The XPower Content Management System includes a Web-based user interface and a cross-platform, XML application server. The server applies business rules to dynamically generate content, assigning custom look and feel, navigation, and user experience to an unlimited group of brands, all from a single set of content. Its Dynamic Device(TM) capability delivers appropriately formatted content to any connected device -- WAP phones worldwide, I-mode phones in Asia, handheld PCs, PDAs, broadband devices and traditional PC browsers. The user interface provides a rich set of content creation and management tools, in an intuitive and easy-to-use format, empowering editorial workers and content creators to concentrate on doing what they do best.

About Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech is a comprehensive university of national and international prominence. As one of the top research institutions in the nation, with annual research expenditures in excess of $200 million, Virginia Tech consistently ranks among top 15 institutions without a human medical facility. The university's faculty and students are involved in more than 3,700 research projects in fields ranging from biotechnology to materials, from the environment and energy to food and health, and from transportation to computing information.

About Ingeniux

Ingeniux Corporation (www.ingeniux.com) is the leading provider of XML-based Web content management and publishing systems. Its integrated product, the XPower Content Management System, enables customers to easily create, manage, and dynamically publish their online content in a variety of ways, to a variety of customers, on a variety of client devices, such as cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs as well as traditional PC browsers. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, Ingeniux products are used worldwide to manage business critical Web sites for the large and mid-tier enterprise.